Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Madame Chiang with Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell in 1942, Burma.

Chiang Kai-Shek | Generalissimo and Soong May-ling | Madame Chiang Kai-shek with Joseph Stilwell | Gen. Joseph Stilwell in Burma ( 1942 ).

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) meets with the Muslim Generals Ma Bufang ( second from left ), and Ma Buqing ( first from left ) in Xining at August 1942.

Chiang and his wife, Soong May-ling, with Joseph Stilwell in Burma ( 1942 )

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

File: 1942 Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling. jpg | Chiang and Soong in 1942

File: 1942 Chiang Soong Stilwell in Burma. jpg | 1942 Chiang, Soong and Joseph Stilwell in Burma.

During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a " public information desk " where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1, 023 people during such sessions in 1942.

Due to the large number of refugees in Ganzhou as a result from the ongoing war, thousands of orphans lived on the street ; in June 1942, Chiang Ching-kuo formally established the Chinese Children's Village ( 中華兒童新村 ) in the outskirts of Ganzhou, with facilities such as a nursery, kindergarten, primary school, hospital and gymnasium.

Political and military leader of History of the Republic of China | Nationalist China Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) meets with the Muslim Generals Ma Bufang ( second from left ), and Ma Buqing ( first from left ) in Xining, Qinghai at August 1942.

In Chiang Mai, Thailand, a marble obelisk was dedicated on 11 November 2003, inscribed to Chennault ; to Jack Newkirk, who was killed in North Thailand on 24 March 1942 ; and to Charles Mott and William McGarry, who were shot down and captured in Thailand.

The aircraft is believed to be that flown by William “ Mac ” McGarry when he was hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying top cover over Chiang Mai on 24 March 1942.

When the nationalist government retreated to Chongking, Chiang again named him as commander of the city's air defense, when but the Japanese air force started the bombing of Chongking, Liu proved to ineffective to provide much leadership to stop the Japanese terror raids and raise civilian morale, plus dismissed in 1942.

I Flew for China: Chiang Kai-Shek's Personal Pilot New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies were forced to supply Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist Chinese by air.

Currie returned to Chungking in July 1942 to try to patch up the strained relations between Chiang and General Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of U. S. forces in China.

In 1942 Chiang Kai-shek insisted that at least 7, 500 tons per month were needed to keep his field divisions in operation, but this figure proved unattainable for the first fifteen months of the Hump airlift.

He personally pushed through the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942, ( which some among the Allied forces, notably Field Marshal Montgomery, later claimed was ill-conceived from the start ).

His collection Poeta en Nueva York ( A poet in New York, published posthumously in 1942 ) explores alienation and isolation through some graphically experimental poetic techniques and was influenced by the Wall Street crash which he personally witnessed.

On May 27, 1942 Miller was personally recognized by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, aboard the aircraft carrier.

In December 1941 and January 1942, Kantorovich personally walked between cars driving on the ice of Lake Ladoga, on the Road of Life, to ensure the cars did not sink.

He was the director of the Southern California division of the federal Works Project Administration from 1935 to 1942, and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall.

After the first Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ( 15 November 1942 ), Kondō personally led the battleship Kirishima along with cruisers Atago, Nagara, Sendai, and Takao, in what was to have been a decisive attack to eliminate the threat from Henderson Field through a massive nocturnal shelling.

In his book God Is My Co-Pilot, Colonel Robert Lee Scott, Jr., USAAF, commander of the 23d Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, described in detail an aerial raid he led on the Japanese shipping anchored in Hong Kong harbour, conducted 25 October 1942, and the lone attack he personally made in his Curtiss P-40K Warhawk ( nicknamed Old Exterminator ) upon the famous Peninsula Hotel:

Small problems occasionally flared up, such as that in October 1942, when Fraser was reprimanded for not personally informing Newall of the resignation of four ministers.

Nigel Brailey treats the Free Thai movement as largely a sham and casts doubt on Pridi ’ s part, arguing “ it appears questionable whether Pridi committed himself personally to the Allied cause much prior to August 1942, if even then ,” suggesting that “ his eventual anti-Japanese stance was a consequence primarily of his hostility to Phibun .”

Glamour, launched in 1939, was the last magazine personally introduced to the company by Mr. Nast, who died in 1942.

On 20 / 21 December 1942, H. E. Bufton personally led a force of 6 de Havilland Mosquitoes on a raid against a power station at Lutterade, a small town in Holland.

In a departure from normal procedure, on November 4, 1942, MacArthur personally signed the order of execution ( in future executions, this administrative task would be entrusted to his Chief of Staff, Richard Sutherland ).

The most important of these was New Guinea Force, which was formed in 1942 and was commanded personally by Blamey in September 1942, and again in September 1943.

At the age of 28 in 1942, Major Hasler planned and personally led Operation Frankton, for which he was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

On 30 November 1942, late in the Guadalcanal campaign, Tanaka personally led a " Tokyo Express " run to Guadalcanal.

In contrast to Force 136, some prominent Civil Affairs officials in South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) HQ wanted him tried for his pre-war activities, and for murder over a case in 1942, in which he had personally executed a civilian of Indian ancestry.

He was promoted to Generalleutnant and received the Swords to the Knight's Cross from Adolf Hitler personally on 21 December 1942.

On 26 November 1942 he was given the Eichenlaub to his Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes by Adolf Hitler personally.

Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half back.

The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive " atomic pile " of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942.

Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values.

Buñuel then went back to Hollywood where he worked in the dubbing department of Warner Brothers from 1942 to 1946.

After his education there, Jagan went to the United States to study dentistry, graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1942.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

On October 25, 1942 the first batch of motorcycles went to the front.

Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again ), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture.

His adjunct, Jean Leguay, committed suicide in 1989 10 years after he was indicted for crimes against humanity for his role in the Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup of July 1942, but before he went to trial.

Irving went on to call the Auschwitz death camp a " tourist attraction " whose origins Irving claimed went back to an " ingenious plan " devised by the British Psychological Warfare Executive in 1942 to spread anti-German propaganda that it was the policy of the German state to be " using ' gas chambers ' to kill millions of Jews and other undesirables ".

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.

Chennault retired in 1937, went to work as an aviation trainer and adviser in China, and commanded the " Flying Tigers " during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942.

Incidental to the story of discovery of the Lady Be Good is the 2012 discovery of a British RAF P40 Kittyhawk that went down in June of 1942.

After returning to Washington and winning re-election in November 1942 Lodge, went to observe allied troops in serving in Egypt and Libya, and in that position was on hand for the British retreat from Tobruk.

The name was changed to " McLaughlin-Buick " when sales went bad, and stayed until 1942, after which the McLaughlin name was dropped, leaving the " Buick " marque still in use today.

Lear went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces.

He went to the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and played Intercollegiate Football for the Western Ontario Mustangs from 1938 to 1942 including the Intercollegiate championship in 1939.

In 1942, about seven months after the war began ; CBS went on the air with a weekly radio variety show called Stagedoor Canteen.

* August 1942 went to Hollywood with Basie's band to record for the film Reveille with Beverly

Despite an early interest in birds, his father encouraged him to study law, but later went on to earn a doctorate in biology from the University of Debrecen in 1942.

Although he made several contributions in advisory roles during the campaigns in the Western Desert in 1940 and 1941, it was not until May 1942 that he went on active service again.

The 164th Infantry Regiment of the Americal Division went into action on Guadalcanal on 13 October 1942 alongside the 1st Marine Division as the first United States Army unit to conduct an offensive operation against the enemy in either the Pacific or European Theater of Operations.

Mr. Taffae went on to serve in the U. S. Army Air Corps from 1942 – 1945.